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If you are going to send unsolcited email, at least make an attempt like this
fellow …
> **From:** Richard Williams <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
> **To:**
[email protected]
> **Subject:** Proposal for The Boston Diaries
> **Date:** 16 Jun 2003 17:54:01 +0530
> **X-Mailer:** Ximian Evolution 1.2.4
>
>
> Dear Sean,
>
> It was a pleasure visiting your website The Boston Diaries. The layout of
> the site is very attractive and the navigation simple. “The pathetic
> warbling car alarm” is a very interesting posting. The background makes a
> good contrast with the site design. I am sure the site will attract lots of
> traffic and hence I would like to extend an offer to you.
>
> I work in the marketing department of XXXXXXXX ( XXXXXXXX is a professional
> web hosting and web design provider currently servicing over 60,000
> customers) and if you would be interested in trying our services, I can
> offer you a full year of hosting for your site (
http://boston.conman.org/)
> completely free of charge.
>
I am simply amazed.
No “add 3″ to your mortgage” pitches. No shilling for “Get your diploma in
breast augmentation!” Not even a “No doctor needed to get your Visa Card up”
hardline sell (ahem). As far as unsolicited emails go, this is probably the
best one I've seen. Highly targeted, person obviously looked at my site (how
ever briefly) and more to the point—personal!
I'm very impressed.
Not impressed enough to actually take them up on their offer. As I wrote to
Richard, it would be very hard to beat the current deal I'm receiving on
colocation of my own server, not to mention the fact that the version of
Apache [1] I'm running includes a custom Apache module I wrote [2]. Sorry
Richard.
A+ on the attempt though.
[1]
http://httpd.apache.org/
[2]
https://github.com/spc476/mod_litbook
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